In the book What Great Teachers Do Differently, Todd Whitaker chronicles things that great teachers do. By adopting many of the practices in the book, a new teacher can be well on their way to becoming a great teacher. High expectations, creating a climate of caring, decision making, and learning to ignore things are just a few of the things that great teachers do. Great teachers have high expectations not just for their students, but also for themselves. The expectations a teacher places on his or herself are directly related to those placed on their students.
A person’s values and characteristics are important to uncover and understand as this differentiates one person from the next. Two things that I personally value are my family and maintaining my youth. I am most known amongst my family and friends for my honesty and compassion. These values and characteristics have the potential to aid me and my pursuance of education. However, they may cause obstacles through my course of study.
They like to inform the parents of things going on at the center, and in the government that concern the center. Having relationships with the families is important and they have very close ties with them. The philosophy the center runs by is the idea that a child’s education is one of the most important, if not the most important, aspects of his or her life. With this in mind, teachers are very influential characters. Therefore it is essential that teachers develop their educational philosophy and their educational goals before making the big step from being a student to being a teacher.
The relationship with parents/carers is the first and most important relationship in a child’s life.They need to have a strong bond or attachment to their primary carers to feel loved and secure. Parents are a childs first teachers so they build the basis for the development. It is important that the child is praised for their actions and not criticised to help build their self esteem and self worth. It is important for children and young people to have friends as they learn social skills that will be important to them throughout their lives. These skills can be vital to maintaining social relationships and help them be able to resolve conflict.
SHC-31 1.1 Identify the different reasons people communicate. I think that an effective communication is an essential part of working with children, their families and work colleagues. One of the very important rules of my code of practice is to communicate with everyone clearly, honestly and effectively. I work towards: -building and maintaining positive relationship with everyone. Great relationships between members of staff will positively influence our work with children/their parents and also will create a nice athmosphere and a great role modeling for them.
Practitioners need to praise children and encourage them to succeed in their learning and give them the support they need. Practitioners need to build positive relationship with not only their key children and other children in their setting but also with the children’s parents this gives them a better chance of giving children more support at home. See appendix 1. At the setting parents can get involved and this will benefit planning for the child as parents know their children better than anyone and they will know their likes and dislikes and will be able to help them with their development. See appendix 2 .
MU 2.9 1.1 When working with children partnerships with others is very important for various reasons, such as helping the children to follow consistent routines which will provide them with a structure for their day. Being a role model and setting positive examples in a childcare setting is vital, therefore all adults who work with children have a responsibility to develop good professional relationships which allow them to get on very well with each other. Successful partnerships between practitioners and parents is also very important; this allows the practitioner to gain knowledge and understanding from the parent of the child’s likes and dislikes, and it also allows the practitioner to inform the parent of the child’s progress within the setting. 1.2 In a childcare setting, working in partnerships with other professionals from different agencies helps to benefit the children in a variety of ways. Some of the other agencies include: * SENCO.
The pre-service educator thinks if someone who encourages learning along with required truths is known as an ideal educator. Additionally, there are more than a few facets needed of a teacher like imagination, inspiration, and eagerness; one needs these facets to survive as an educator. Indeed, as a continuing occupation this has been a high request for every person in the education line of work. On the other hand, recognizing that the students are the future, they are worth the facets of education. By being familiar with the philosophies of education has helped the pre-service identify with and the ones that correlates with the per-service principles are behaviorism, essentialism, and progressivism.
The influences that repeatedly are being applied are examples such as partnership with parents. This is something within my setting that we are constantly trying to improve. We believe to have effective working partnership with parents and carers it provides the best care for the child, enabling them to learn and develop. McMillan was not the only pioneer who was a firm believer of this other examples include Froebel and Issacs. Wolfendale acknowledges that “the value of partnership with parents has been recognized since it was stated in the plowden report (1967) that by involving parents the children may be helped and the fact that many settings now routinely work closer with parents.” Brudenell, Kay (2008, p274) I believe as time goes on the Ideologies and theories will continue to be put into our practice within working settings.
I am empathetic and honest, something which I feel is very important when working in partnership with parents and carers, and I am also enthusiastic and creative which I believe are vital assets when working with young children. I hope that if I am successful in the application process and graduate with this foundation degree I can go on and apply to do a PGCE or BA. This will allow me to enhance my skills and help me to achieve my goal of becoming a competent and professional practitioner helping young children to develop into healthy, happy and well-rounded